Babies Born October 1st ~ 15th 2008

[Trillian]

This thread is for parents who's baby was born October 1st -15th 2008

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MistyFying

There are many issues that you will encounter as a new parent. We have put together this list of useful articles and threads in order to assist you with some common questions or issues you may have, and to provide you with bit of extra support that we all need as new parents:

Feeding Support:

Breastfeeding General Chatter
Breastfeeding FAQ's
Is My Baby Hungry?
Bottlefeeding FAQ's and Useful Information
Is Feeding Your Baby Taking Too Much Time?
Bottlefeeding General Chatter
Feeding Your Baby
Lactose Intolerance
Starting Solids/Homemade Baby Food
Starting Solids - When Is My Baby Ready?
Starting Solids General Chatter

Please contact the Australian Breastfeeding Association (ABA) or a Lactation Consultant if you are concerned that you may have breastfeeding and/or supply problems, and before the introduction of solids.

Sleeping Support:

Comforted Sleeping & Sleep Issues Forum
Comforting Tools to Aid Restful Sleep
Babies & Sleep
Controlled Crying/Comforting/Sleep Training
The Con of Controlled Crying
The Crying Game
15 Ways To Help Your Baby Sleep

Other Useful Information & Recommended Reading:

Baby Massage
Cuddle Me Mum
Infant-led Feeding & Weaning
Baby Wearing
Recommended Reading List

Got questions?

Post your questions in the forums mentioned above, or in the following forums where you're sure to receive many friendly responses!

General Baby & Toddler Forum
Breastfeeding, Bottlefeeding and Solids
Gentle Parenting Forum

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[Helly]

wah - am I the only one so far? I want back into my due date group!!

[PinkPalace]

hi Helly!
i will join you! i think it takes people a little while to switch on over!

[BekZ]

Pink - I just saw you name and decided to drop in and congratulate you on the arrival of your little boy.

[kuraiza]

I found this forum too.

Pink Palace, we have twins.

[Helly]

whoop.... i whinge, then I run away!

Haven't been feeling real social, having a hard time breastfeeding (although it's settling at last - now I'm chained to the couch for 18 hours a day!) but things are looking up. How is everyone coping so far?

Kuraiza - great to see you in here!

[kuraiza]

Breastfeeding is time consuming, isn't it? How did humans survive evolution when us women have to sit around, defenseless and immobile for so many hours each day? I am chasing my inlaws out of the apartment so I can breastfeed and watch TV, or else I'm stuck in the bedroom all day.

Jude was awake last night from 6pm to 11.30pm. What was that all about? I didn't know what I was supposed to do.

[*Tanya*]

I'll join this forum too. I've found it hard to find time to get online!! I am surprised at how long breast feeding takes. I keep forgetting it takes an hour per feed!! Happily I haven't had any problems with breast feeding.. but my worry is if Maya is getting enough!? I don't know how to tell if my breasts are being drained?! I don't have engorged breasts at all.

kuraiza - My little Maya is also going through long periods of awake crying time.. lasting hours. It started a few days ago. And DH and I are going crazy trying to work out what's wrong or what to do to settle her. She seems to not want to sleep - she gets these big wide eyes. But then I think she gets over tired and can't cope so cries until she can settle down for sleep, which can last for hours. I have no idea what to do either.

[Hollye]

BIRTHS

Georgi - 28/08/08 - Byron John - 4lb 15oz - 7:14am

curl - 23/09/08 - Loralei Grace - 8lb 4oz

Belfie - 25/09/08 - Xander Jordan - 7lb 7oz - 1:35am

Didispunk - 25/09/08 - Jorda May - 6lb 14oz - 12:46pm

SamiH - 25/09/08 - Zander ******* - 8lb 1oz - 8:58pm

cocopop - 29/09/08 - Josef Justice Bernard - 7lb - 9:57pm

CathieW - 30/09/08 - 9.00pm
^^^- Sam - 7lb 3oz -Hana - 5lb 10oz^^^- born 12 minutes apart

Helly - 02/10/08 - Ewan Shaun - 8lb 9oz - 3:08pm

PinkPalace - 07/10/08 - Ethan Cruz - 7lb 7oz

Kuraiza - 07/10/08 - Jude Hugo Thomas - 5lb 10.3oz - 6:39am

Itsme - 10/10/08 - Maya Katherine - 8lb 13oz - 9:28am

Katones - 12/10/08 - Jack Anthony- 9lb 4oz - 10am

Csab - 14/10/08 - Olivia - 5lb 2oz - 2:35pm

AmandaJ - 15/10/08 - Julian Jesse - 7lb 11oz - 4:12pm

Sweetpea - 16/10/08 - tba - 8lb 12oz

Hippiemummy - 17/10/08 - Banjo

Olive'smummy - 17/10/08 - Olive Mae - 8lb 15oz 2:24am

1stbub27 - 17/10/08 - Liam Samuel - 8lb 2oz - 7:22

Tanstar - 18/10/08 - James Benjamin George - 10lb 0.84oz

Hollye - 22/10/08 - Mia - 7lb 12oz - 8:08

SneakySparkle - 24/10/08 - Evangeline Ruby Hope - 7lb 5oz - 2:00pm

hj1981 - 28/10/08 - Bianca Jane - 7lb 5oz - 12:20pm
rileynmia - 29/10/08 - Audrey Elisabeth - 7lb 6oz - 5.07am
STARRYSKY - 30/10/08 - Jacob Declan - 9lb 11oz - 12:13am

Kylieb77 - 2/11/08 - Logan James Brooks - 9lb 7oz -2.55am

[kuraiza]

She seems to not want to sleep - she gets these big wide eyes. But then I think she gets over tired and can't cope so cries until she can settle down for sleep, which can last for hours

That's how I felt too. I bought a dummy for Jude because he loves to comfort suckle and he sucks his fists, the paediatrician told me in hospital you can always take a dummy away but you can't take away thumbs, so we tried it. It helped to settle him last night (at last).

[*Tanya*]

Originally Posted by kuraiza

That's how I felt too. I bought a dummy for Jude because he loves to comfort suckle and he sucks his fists, the paediatrician told me in hospital you can always take a dummy away but you can't take away thumbs, so we tried it. It helped to settle him last night (at last).

My DH wants to try and avoid dummies if possible. So at the moment we are trying to settle her without them. But I do have some ready to use - just in case!

[PinkPalace]

hi girls!
Yay Kurazia for twinnies ! lol

Bekz thanks for the welcome!

Well i am slowly getting used to the world of a newborn and a 16 month old.
It is hard being so tired in the morning. I tried to put DS in his cot at night in his room but crys so much. So for now we are co sleeping and DH is in the spare room - which works well as he gets sleep, and looks after DD if she wakes and i get the bed to myself!

DS is waking all hours no routine at night yet. Sleeping well during the day lol!

As for dummies... i held off the dummy with DD for 5 weeks and it was a godsend when i finally gave in... the sleep was soooo much better as she didnt need my boob to settle!!

Trying to give DS one in the hope it would happen with im too ... lol but nope! he wont take it!!! rah!

Hollye - if you check back in... eventually i think the threads become babies born october 2008.....

[kuraiza]

Originally Posted by Itsme

My DH wants to try and avoid dummies if possible. So at the moment we are trying to settle her without them. But I do have some ready to use - just in case!

I didn't want to use dummies either. I was mostly worried it would affect how he attaches, but since attachment isn't an issue and the comfort suckling is, I gave it a try. I feel bad giving him a dummy because I think "what if he wants something else and I'm not giving him what he actually needs" but he would reject the dummy and keep crying if he wanted something else. I swaddle his hands down and I think it frustrates him that he can't suck his fists, so the dummy calms him and he falls asleep within a few minutes. It's made a big difference to settling him.

Also, I just rubbed some avocado oil baby lotion on him after a bath (his skin was peeling on his hands and feet) and I wonder if that helped settle him because after a quick booby topup he was out like a light.

Why doesn't your husband want you to use a dummy? I'm just interested because I think usually it's the woman who objects and the man who can't see anything wrong with it.

DS is waking all hours no routine at night yet. Sleeping well during the day lol!

Jude sleeps like a champion, so much so that I have to wake him up to feed him so it's easy for me to get sidetracked and forget to wake him (or want to sleep for 4 hours straight after a 2-hour feed), so some days we only get 5 feeds in a 24-hour period and I am a bit worried if he's eating enough. Wouldn't he wake up and cry if he was hungry? Am I being a bad mum? I'll take him for a weigh in 2 days and see if he's gained weight since hospital. I hope so, he's so skinny.

[kuraiza]

Is anyone else suddenly getting bombarded by medical bills (pathology, paediatrician etc) 2 weeks after their baby was born? When do they think I have the time to look at these things and why didn't my private health insurance automatically take care of it?

Bleh, I think I've already lost half the bills in the chaos that is my living room. I didn't expect this $600 bill from the paediatrician who has charged me for every time he popped in for 5 minutes to say hello in hospital.

Itsme: My mum gave me some excellent settling techniques. We had a hell of a night the other night when Jude was awake from his 7.30pm feed until midnight! But last night was bliss!

For squirming unsettled baby: Hold your baby to your body really firmly and let them fight you (Jude declares out-right war on me). Let them squirm and whinge and complain, but keep holding them tightly until they calm down then hold on some more until they've been calm for at least a few minutes.

For wide-eyed but quiet baby: Swaddle baby and rock in arms, keep rocking even if they finally shut their eyes.

I've done both, but the first one was particularly effective. I hadn't tried persevering through a severe case of the grumps, but Jude got tired of fighting wars with me quickly and fell asleep easily after that.

[*Tanya*]

kuraiza - My DH actually isn't against giving her a dummy, but wants to wait and see if it really is necessary. At the moment we find most unsettled periods are during the day, which is easier to cope with than at night. But we are both willing and ready to use dummies if we need them! And thanks for the advice on unsettled babies. Somehow my DH discovered the first method the other night and it worked so well for us. I need to try the wide-eyed quiet baby one though, cos a lot of the time she'll be wide awake during the day.. show no signs of tired.. but suddenly become a screaming baby! I think she wants to be awake and then just suddenly is too over-tired!

[Georgi]

Hi girls.. I'm thinking I should join this group. My baby buddies group is hard to compare with. All their babies are smiling and doing all the typical things a 8week old babies does, though Byron is really only 1 week, he is 7 weeks behind. All his milestones will be compared to with his corrected date, which would be the same as your babies. Do you's think that it's a better idea for me to hang here?

[kuraiza]

You were with us in the due date thread so we've grown accustomed to you

Hang where YOU feel most comfortable!

[*Tanya*]

Georgi - Of course you can join this group! It'd be nice to have another member.